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Juan Miguel Matheus, Venezuelan opposition negotiator: ‘The terms have been defined by the US State Department’

8 October 2026 at 14:32

Juan Miguel Matheus acknowledges United States involvement in the process that Chavismo and part of the opposition began on January 12, and which this month opens its third round of meetings. Far from being bothered by it, Washington’s involvement seems necessary to him: in his view, it has made essential compromises feasible for the institutional transformation needed to restore democracy in Venezuela. Matheus is confident that in the upcoming sessions, which will run through December, work will begin on a new electoral system and on restoring political and constitutional rights.

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Juan Miguel Matheus, of the party Primero Justicia (PJ), in Caracas on October 8, 2018.
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